{"product_id":"wonderland-635212073926","title":"Wonderland","description":"Wonderland is full of magic and myth. Containing exclusively works commissioned by The King's Singers across their 55 years; the album celebrates their trademark musical storytelling; with no shortage of comedy. György Ligeti's six Nonsense Madrigals; each setting playful children's poetry or extracts from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; provide a musical spine to the album; commemorating 100 years since the composer's birth in 1923. From just over 50 years ago; the fairytale The Musicians of Bremen (1972) - set to music by the Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Music Malcolm Williamson - sits alongside Time Piece (1972) by Paul Patterson; which tells an eccentric alternative creation story. These myth-based works have recent companions such as Judith Bingham's extended work Tricksters (2019); which unearths what could happen if miscreants from different world mythologies could come together for the first time; and Ola Gjeilo's A Dream within a Dream which questions the very nature of perception and reality. The album also features the legendary Japanese film and game composer Joe Hisaishi's first ever choral work; I was there (2022); focussing on the cultural memory of tragic events such as 9\/11 and the 2011 Japan Earthquake. Themes of hope and positivity; centred on the natural world; emerge in Makiko Kinoshita's Ashita no uta (Song for tomorrow) (2020) and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers' Alive (2022).","brand":"Signum Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46362360184915,"sku":"2634259X","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4237995_5891ffba-00bf-4cd7-ae56-f55848bc9fc5.jpg?v=1790448717","url":"https:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/products\/wonderland-635212073926","provider":"Deep Discount","version":"1.0","type":"link"}